Spotlight on C. P. Lesley
Interview with the Five Directions Press author and co-founder C. P. Lesley.
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C. P. Lesley
- Mar 16, 2020
- 5 min
Books We Loved, Mar. 2020
Monthly picks for good reading: Jen Beagin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Agatha Frost, and Kayte Nunn
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Joan Schweighardt
- Feb 28, 2020
- 6 min
Spotlight on Jacqueline Church Simonds
Interview with Jacqueline Church Simonds, author of Captain Mary, Buccaneer; and the Heirs to Camelot series.
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C. P. Lesley
- Feb 14, 2020
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Feb. 2020
Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna (HarperCollins, 2009) An uneasy task, mixing the fictional with the historical, but Kingsolver succeeds in...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Jan 30, 2020
- 6 min
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Pets 2 (Dogs)
Oh, we love our pets at Five Directions Press. We love them so much that we wrote our hearts outs describing them, and now have to share...
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C. P. Lesley
- Jan 14, 2020
- 5 min
Books We Loved, Jan. 2020
And let’s not forget our own C. P. Lesley’s Song of the Shaman, released January 14, 2020. Find out more about the second in her Songs of...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Dec 31, 2019
- 4 min
Spotlight on Lynn C. Miller
Lynn C. Miller is a writer, a playwright, a performer, an instructor, the cofounder of a magazine, and so much more. Her life in the...
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C. P. Lesley
- Dec 16, 2019
- 3 min
Books We Loved, Dec. 2019
Christopher Brown, Rule of Capture (Harper Voyager, 2019) Donny Kimoe, a wisecracking lawyer who used to work for the prosecution and has...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Dec 1, 2019
- 6 min
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Pets I (Cats & More)
Oh, we love our pets at Five Directions Press. We love them so much that we wrote our hearts out describing them, and now have to share...
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C. P. Lesley
- Nov 15, 2019
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Nov. 2019
Here are three novels we particularly enjoyed this month. But don’t stop there. We also published two new books of our own this fall, so...
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C. P. Lesley
- Oct 30, 2019
- 6 min
Spotlight on P. K. Adams
As much as I love historical fiction—especially historical fiction set in Russia and Eastern Europe (assuming the authors know what...
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C. P. Lesley
- Oct 17, 2019
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Oct. 2019
And while you’re browsing all these wonderful books, don’t miss our latest release: Joan Schweighardt’s Gifts for the Dead, book 2 in her...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Sep 27, 2019
- 6 min
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: BFF
According to online urban dictionaries, BFF has a variety of possible meanings, at least one of which is vulgar. Rest assured; here at...
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C. P. Lesley
- Sep 14, 2019
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Sep. 2019
Angie Cruz, Dominicana (Flatiron Books, 2019) Police raids on a factory to round up undocumented immigrants; a brown-skinned immigrant...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Aug 30, 2019
- 4 min
Spotlight on Joy Castro
It’s my great pleasure to interview Joy Castro for this Spotlight feature. With her permission I’d like to introduce her with her recent...
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C. P. Lesley
- Aug 15, 2019
- 3 min
Books We Loved, Aug. 2019
Anna Burns, Milkman (Faber and Faber, 2018) “The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Jul 31, 2019
- 5 min
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Indulgences
“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing,” Mick Jagger has said. And we agree. To a point. Regarding some things. C. P. Lesley:...
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C. P. Lesley
- Jul 15, 2019
- 3 min
Books We Loved, Jul. 2019
Kate Braithwaite, The Girl Puzzle (Crooked Cat Books, 2019) In 1887 Elizabeth Cochrane—a young reporter from Pittsburgh desperate to land...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Jun 28, 2019
- 5 min
Spotlight on Faye Rapoport DesPres
With this post, Five Directions Press author Joan Schweighardt—the author of The Last Wife of Attila the Hun and Before We Died, among...
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C. P. Lesley
- Jun 14, 2019
- 5 min
Books We Loved, Jun. 2019
Ana Johns, The Woman in the White Kimono (Park Row Books, 2019) Naoko Nakamura is only seventeen when she falls madly in love with an...
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